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Sep 26, 2010, 6:01 pm
17-mile Team Time Trial
34-mile Road Race (21-mile for women)
Waumandee, Wisc.
9/25/10
The 2010 road season is over… and I survived.
I lost a lot of equipment and a little flesh this year, but I survived!
We had a great day of racing at the WiSport Worlds in Waumandee, Wisc. Satu... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2010, 5:23 pm
30-something-min. cyclocross race
Eagle, Wisc.
9/18/10
10-something-mile individual TT
Blue Mounds, Wisc.
9/19/10
I think that’s how ‘cross is suppose to be… wet and muddy.
A thunderstorm just before the start of my race set the tone for the day turning the course into a... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 11:20 am
57-mile Road Race
Fort Atkinson, Wisc.
9/11/10
42-mile Road Race
Cleghorn, Wisc.
9/12/10
In the last few years I’ve come to the conclusion that work seems really lame on a Monday morning after a weekend of back-to-back (or more) racing.
We had a really fun — and successful... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 12:29 pm
35 -mile Road Race
Park Falls, Wisc.
9/4/10
September already?
We’re well into the last few road races of the year (5 more left, by my count) and Julie seems to have hit a nice stride to round out the season.
She managed to hang with the lead group (again) on Saturday at the Flambe... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2010, 12:31 pm
56-mile Road Race
Richmond, Minn.
8/28/10
Two full weekends of racing were apparently what was needed to break me out of a little racing rut I’ve been for the last few weeks.
On Saturday we packed up the car and made a pre-dawn departure to get to the Minnesota State Road Race just we... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2010, 10:46 am
40 Min Crit (Masters 35+ 4/5)
50 min Crit (masters 35+ 34)
Fond du Lac, Wisc
8/21/10
With just about month left in the road season I suppose it’s best to soak it all in while you can.
On Saturday we raced the Attitude Sports Crit in Fond du Lac. After badgering Julie for months to ... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2010, 11:12 pm
Julie has the helm on her reflections on summer. Look for a weekend racing update soon!
It’s official.
It’s almost over.
Monday August 9 marked the official beginning of the end of my summer after helping to fit almost 200 high school athletes with football helmets. While that tho... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2010, 5:16 pm
22-mile Road Race
Belleville, Wisc.
8/7/10
Pretty good weekend of activities…
Saturday was the Belleville RR, a small unsanctioned community race, near Madison.
I missed the 6-man break (pretty badly --caught on the inside of the group) that went away I finished somewhere in the... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2010, 11:11 am
24-hour MTB race (5-man team)
Wausau, Wisc.
7/31/10 to 8/1/10
Ha. Sweet event this year with a neat 11 mile course that was full of rocks. We had a great team as well (Todd Troskey, Mike Worland, Larkin Wise, Brian Hegge and me).
We finished second of two teams in the five-person divisio... Comment - Like
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Jul 27, 2010, 11:50 am
24-mile road race
Blue Mounds, Wisc.
7/24/10
I wish I had some thrilling tale of racing for Blue Mounds, but I do not.
With 2,400 feet of climbing over 24 miles this was not the type of course where I was going to be anywhere near the front -- and I wasn’t. LOL
I ebnded up ... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2010, 9:49 am
47-mile road race
Mellen, Wisc.
7/17/10
There’s really no way to capture all the shenanigans of a weekend racing road trip unless you are there.
This weekend was no exception as we headed up to Mellen Friday night for a Saturday race.
I got my bike back from the shop a little after... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2010, 3:06 pm
With my Tarmac in the shop all week from Saturday’s crash at Greenwood, I figured I’d take advantage of my situation to do something completely different on Tuesday night.
So I hopped on my CX bike and headed south on the Fox River Trail to the unpaved section and ride as far south as I c... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2010, 3:31 pm
38-mile Road Race
Greenwood, Wisc.
7/10/11
The Greenwood RR on Saturday marked the end of the first half of the 2010 season (I think, I haven’t actually counted out all the events this year, but it’s USUALLY the middle of the WiSport season) and this has been a year for the books.
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Jul 6, 2010, 10:28 am
43-Mile Road Race
Omro, Wis.
7/3/10
That’s a Fourth of July weekend to remember for a lot of different reasons — all of them good!
Starting with the Omro Classic RR in Omro Saturday, I got off in a three-man break that went as soon as the race started. I was with guys that had me p... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2010, 10:49 am
27-mile Team Time Trial
Brice Prairie, Wisc.
6/26/10
30-mile Road Race
Holmen, Wisc.
6/27/10
June was rounded out with a team time trial on Saturday and road race on Sunday for both Julie and I.
So that meant packing up the Vue with four bikes and 11 wheels for the two-day tri... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2010, 6:20 pm
40-mile road race (20-mile for Julie)
Greenbush, Wisc.
6/24/10
Half way through the greatest racing week of the year with four events this week… Wonder what it would be like if all weeks were like this in the summer?
On Thursday we headed down to the Greenbush Road Race with pretty mu... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 11:16 pm
32-mile road race
Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wisc.)
6/21/10
What a treat it was racing at Road America as part of the Tour of America’s Dairyland.
The course was fast and above all it smooth. And I mean really smooth. No ruts, no potholes no bumps. What a dream!
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Jun 14, 2010, 11:00 am
26.1 mile individual time trial
6/12/10
Frederic, Wisc.
Another weekend of double events … that’s three in a row and I’m lovin’ it!
The weekend kicked off with a trek across the state with Chris Mueller and Mike Buelter for the Frederic Lions Club TT.
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Jun 7, 2010, 12:29 pm
14-mile individual time trial
39-mile road race
Montfort, Wisc.
June 5 and 6, 2010
(ed: may have a video and some more photos posted later)
June is shaping up to be quite the month of racing!
We headed down to the hilly terrain of southwesternish Wisconsin this weekend for a two... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 9:58 pm
Criterium (35 min + two laps)
Circuit Race (1 hour)
Time Trial (26ish miles)
Elkhart Lake, Wisc.
5/29/10 to 5/31/10
We saw a lot of racing action (cat. 4) this weekend in the first-year Tour of Elkhart Lake that ran Saturday through Monday.
While the fields were tiny, it was s till ... Comment - Like
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May 24, 2010, 10:12 am
10-mile individual time trial
Blue Mounds, Wisc.
5/23/10
I’m not sure if I should thank or chastise whoever spray painted the grade on the side of the road up Park Road at Blue Mounds State Park — the first (and in my estimation) hardest part of the climb.
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May 21, 2010, 9:46 am
Well enough with the negative waves toward Versus… off to Blue Mounds State Park Sunday for the “most challenging” TT of the season (and it’s on the WiSport schedule two times this year — we go back in Sept.), the Alpe Bl’Huez TT.
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May 18, 2010, 9:35 pm
I sent his to Vs. and the Amgen Tour of California after two days of abysmal coverage of the event. The final straw was Tuesday when Vs. cut away from the Tour of California with 1.8K left to show pregame coverage of an NHL playoff game (where the puck dropped 11 min pass the hour -- more than enoug... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 3:03 pm
31-mile Road Race
Larue, Wisc
5/15/10
Larue-Denzer-Larue RR = hills.
Tough course, but man, was that a fun race. Needless to say terrain and elevation change is one of the key factors at the race near Baraboo, Wisc. and it featured the first real hills we’ve raced this season.
It Di... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2010, 3:04 pm
A weekend with no racing… how sad.
Due to a pretty crappy day Friday and early Saturday, organizers of the 12 hours of Stump Farm opted later Friday afternoon to postpone the race until some other time, leaving me raceless this weekend.
For a while Friday night I was poised to go do a rosd ... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 5:00 pm
Julie rolled home with a new computer on Wednesday, replacing our nine year old system. Talk about fast. Sweet!
I did a pair of test videos last night from stuff shot last weekend. On man, this is living! I got both of these done and on YouTube about four times faster than in the past.
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May 5, 2010, 10:14 am
I found a great new training tool Tuesday — Severe weather.
Tornado near Neenah (photo sumbitted to Gannett Media Wisconsin)
How you use it:
1) Ride 18 miles to Freedom watching a blackish front roll in (be sure to check NWS weather radar around 4 p.m. and see there is not... Comment - Like
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May 2, 2010, 10:56 pm
16.1 mile Individual Time Trial
Willard, Wisc.
5/1/10
A weekend of back-to-back to racing got underway Saturday in Willard, Wisc. with the 16.1-mile Dar’s Midwest Time Trial Challenge.
As usual it was windy as all get out on two legs of the square course, but all in all it was a prett... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2010, 10:57 pm
24-mile Road Race
Whitewater, Wisc.
4/24/09
I’m going to assume that it really is “mud” all over my uniform, glasses, helmet and face -- but when you live in a state that is heavy on livestock agriculture there’s a pretty good bet it’s more than just “mud.”
Rain and... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2010, 9:51 am
Hmmmm. Looks like it could be a wet one again for the Pedal for Proceeds RR tomorrow. Last year we had hail/sleet and thunderstorms. Wonder what’s in store for the 2010 edition?
At least temps look to be in the 50s which won’t be miserable when soaked -- in theory.
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Apr 18, 2010, 9:00 am
The Willard Friendly (Metric) Century is sort of an odd duck.
It’s a 40-plus-mile (or 20-plus mile ride, depending on which you choose) ride to get reacquainted the other riders and knock off some of the rust from the season followed by a 20-mile race back to the Willard Wisc.
The team broug... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 10:41 am
So the question was asked on the WiSport forum, “What do you pack for a race event?”
I sorta rattled off this answer, and while it’s not the end-all-be-all answer it seems to cover a lot of the stuff we load up every weekend.
So here’s what we take, how ‘bout you?
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Apr 12, 2010, 10:11 am
It took a few months of planning, but the team's inaugural Spring Camp went off this weekend with a strong turn out, a lot of teasing, laughs and a pretty good mileage total for the day-and-half event.
Saturday’s ride brought out about 30 team riders who logged between 73 a... Comment - Like
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Apr 4, 2010, 3:26 pm
Sunday was the first day playin’ in the dirt on the MTBs out at Reforestation Camp.
Julie is pretty proud of this shot... I think it's cool too!
Julie and I had a nice ride, logging about 18 miles.
This is step one in getting Julie ready to try a MTB race this year having been aw... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2010, 2:57 pm
I like Luna Bars. I’m proud to say it and I’m a dude.
Last week as we were riding and eating (while waiting for Marc Larson to finish his “natural break” at the side of the road -- get that guy some Flomax to speed the process) Mike Buelter asked me what I was eating.
“Luna bar. Cara... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2010, 3:52 pm
March was a very good month of riding.
Despite missing a lot of days the first two weeks because of darkness (up to DST on 3/14) I managed to get in 750 miles — a pretty good month.
Here’s to hoping the great weather holds out for April (especially April 10 and 11 for team camp in ... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2010, 8:32 am
45 Min crit (Cat 4); 45 Min Crit (Cat 4/5)
S. Beloit, Ill.
3/27/10
That was quite a way to start the 2010 racing season. Whew....
We headed down to S. Beloit, Ill. Saturday for the Burnham Spring Super Crit, a race run on a 1.9-ish mile road racing track just over the Wisconsin/Ill. b... Comment - Like
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Mar 25, 2010, 9:34 am
Despite expected highs in the 30s today, this has turned out to be a much better week for riding than forecast and I've managed to long some nice days in the saddle.
On Wednesday I popped out to Marshfield to ride with Chris Mueller and Craig Braun. We turned in a nice 42-mile ride in the mi... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 7:37 pm
Despite a pair of cool mornings with temps in the 20s and 30s, this ended up being a nice weekend of riding with two varied groups of riders on Saturday and Sunday.
36 at departure on Sunday (not too shabby compared to Saturday's 28)
Saturday’s ride logged about 48 miles (including a ... Comment - Like
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Mar 21, 2010, 12:55 am
Found this while aimlessly poking around on the net Saturday night (hold those comments, misters and misuses!).
Anyway, looks like a group is ready to step in and keep a 24 hour event at 9-mile on the same weekend as the now shuttered 24/9 (July 31- Aug. 1). This group's site is set to go ... Comment - Like
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Mar 19, 2010, 9:34 am
After months of holing up in the basement with nothing more than my DVD player and de-humidifier to keep me company, it’s back out to the world of social cycling.
Julie and I knocked a fun ride on my usual Thursday night ride out of The Bike Hub in De Pere last night (first of the year!) ... Comment - Like
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